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A select collection of original Scottish airs, for the voice : with introductory & concluding symphonies & accompaniments for the piano forte, violin & violoncello : with select and characteristic verses both Scottish and English adapted to the airs, including upwards of one hundred new songs by Burns

by: Haydn, Joseph, 1732-1809; Pleyel, Ignaz, 1757-1831; Kozeluch, Leopold, 1747-1818; Burns, Robert, 1759-1796

Publication date: 1803

Topics: Burns, Robert, 1759-1796, Songs with piano, Songs with instrumental ensemble, Songs, Scots, Songs, English, Ballads, Scots

Publisher: Edinburgh : G. Thomson

Collection: whitbymusic; universitywesterno; ontario_council_university_libraries; toronto

Digitizing sponsor: University of Western Ontario - University of Toronto Libraries

Contributor: University of Western Ontario

Language: English

Songs for 1 or 2 voices with piano, violin and cello

First stanza set to music, also printed separately as text with additional stanzas

Includes preface notes and index to the songs in each volume

Vol. 3 and 4 contains works composed solely by Haydn

" 'I do hereby certify, that all the songs of my writing, published, and to be published, by Mr. George Thomson of Edinburgh, are so published by my authority' "--Advertisement preceding t.p

Vols. 1 and 2 bound together, and vols. 3 and 4 bound together

Lacks accompaniment for violin and cello

Handwritten signature in ink by G. Thomson on t.p

Condition: very good with very light foxing

Dr. James L. and Dr. Margaret Whitby donation